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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - It will take several weeks to disarm Burundi's last rebel group after it signed a cease-fire deal solidifying the end of a 12-year civil war, officials said Monday.
Burundi and the rebel National Liberation Force — known by its French acronym, FNL — signed the agreement Thursday in Tanzania, more than a year after the country's other rebel groups agreed to lay down arms.
The deal was seen as a vital development toward long-term peace in Burundi, an impoverished central African nation of 7 million people.
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